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the only weapon designed to apologize and come right back to you
means A curved throwing stick, traditionally Aboriginal Australian, shaped so that it spins through the air and returns to the thrower — or, figuratively, anything that comes back to bite the sender.
from From an Aboriginal Australian language of the Sydney region — most often traced to the Dharug word 'bumarit' (or 'wo-mur-rang'), recorded by early English colonists in the late 18th century. The English spelling settled into 'boomerang' in the early 1800s, and the word soon flew beyond the object itself to mean anything that returns to its source.
- older than thought
- oldest found is 23,000 years old
- non-returning kind
- hunting boomerangs flew straight to kill prey
- physics flex
- spin plus airfoil shape curves its flight path
- space tested
- astronauts threw one in orbit; it returned
- not just Australia
- ancient versions found in Europe and Egypt
aboriginal returning stick — used by indigenous australians for hunting and sport, documented for thousands of years
applicom boomerang — 1984 arcade game by taito featuring a character throwing a boomerang weapon
boomerang generation — young adults returning to live with parents after 2008 financial crisis, sociological term